Bruce Prichard details scandal involving cemetery used for Undertaker vignettes
One of the cemeteries WWE used for The Undertaker’s early vignettes harbors a dark secret.
Bruce Prichard appeared on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast recently and discussed filming vignettes early in Undertaker’s career, including at a Stamford-based cemetery. Prichard said that either after a shoot, or shortly thereafter, his assistant showed him the front page of a Stamford newspaper detailing crimes connected to the cemetery.
Prichard said:
“That cemetery, either after that shoot, shortly thereafter, my assistant came in and showed me the front page of the Stamford newspaper. That cemetery had been accused of stacking bodies. And they found them. And this guy would dig holes for us, he would let us go on mausoleums, everything.“
“They would just stack. And then once they knew the family was gone, they’d get rid of that headstone and sell it to another family. Sure, we got room! Don’t worry about it!”
“We got plenty of room, we got plenty of dirt,” Taker added.
While Prichard never named the cemetery directly, the timing lines up with the Fairfield Memorial Park scandal of the early 1990s, which led to several lawsuits against the cemetery. Testimony from cemetery workers stated that management did not know which bodies were in which graves, that bodies were sometimes buried away from where headstones had been placed, and that plots were sold more than once.
Prichard and Undertaker also discussed filming the vignettes, with Prichard saying he enjoyed them more than Undertaker did.
“They were fun!” Prichard said.
“They were anything but fun,” Taker replied.
Prichard and Taker’s comments about the cemetery scandal begins around the 40-minute mark of the interview.
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